HBO Cancels Lily Tomlin Comedy Before it Airs
Why don't they just show us the pilot to 12 Miles of Bad Road and let us decide if we like it? I'm apparently a better judge of these things than they are, because they're throwing a whole lot of cash into the dumper on this one.
They've produced six episodes already and given the recent shakeup at HBO I can only imagine that it's part of the new team that's made this decision.
The show's pilot was executive-produced by Designing Women's Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and her husband, Harry Thomason.
While HBO committed to the show at first, executives ultimately deemed it a poor match for the network's sensibilities, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. Production stopped during the writers' strike and HBO decided to not go forward with the project after the strike ended.
Bloodworth-Thomason and Thomason pitched it to several networks since but have not found a taker.
